单词 | transnature |
释义 | transnaturev. Now rare. transitive. To change the nature of. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > in character or function reduce?a1425 convert1557 resolve?a1560 transnature1567 transnaturalize1631 transmutate1632 transdignify1655 process1881 denaturate1895 denature1907 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. ii. 238 For, as he saith, wee are Transelemented, or transnatured, and changed into Christe, euen so,..wee saie, The Breade is Transelemented, or changed into Christes Body. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ei Their curiosity, and nicenes in apparell..transnatureth them, makinge them weake, tender and infirme. 1627 J. Carter Plaine Expos. Serm. in Mount 72 The Soule, being set as a great Empresse in the bodie of man, hath a Favourite or Minion, to which it hearkeneth, and after which it is carried, yea, is euen so changed, and (as it were) transnatured by it, that if it be heauenly, the Soule is likewise heauenly; if earthly it maketh in like manner, an earthly Soule. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 156 Repentance..able to transnature and translate people. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 94 That the body of our Lord was not transelemented or transnatured by the pleroma indwelling, we are positively assured by Scripture. Derivatives rare. transnatuˈration n. change of nature. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] overchangingc1384 transmutation1398 permutationa1425 transforming1435 resolutiona1450 translating1503 resolvinga1513 conversion1549 transposing1550 conversationa1570 transmuting1579 projection?1583 transmigration1618 version1626 transversion1656 transmogrification1661 converting1711 metamorphosing1730 metastasis1818 turn-over1825 interconversion1865 transnaturation1873 transmorphism1888 segue1945 1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. viii. 280 Save by effecting a total transnaturation or stagnation of the human mind, how could a language be prevented from undergoing changes? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.1567 |
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